Birdseye developed some 300 patents and inventions in his lifetime, Kurlansky said. ... Clarence Birdseye died on Oct. 7, 1956, at a home he kept at the Gramercy Park Hotel in Manhattan.

Clarence Birdseye, meanwhile, kept busy. He developed an infrared heat lamp, a food-dehydration process, and a whaling harpoon. By the time of his death in 1956, he had nearly 300 patents to his name.

Clarence Birdseye did not invent frozen food, but he is credited with creating the industry by developing a flash-freezing process that was commercially viable and produced frozen food people were … ...

“Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man” (Doubleday), by Mark Kurlansky: The author who told us more than we ever thought there was to know about cod (“Cod: A Biography of the … ...

Clarence Birdseye's life as a taxidermist, fur trader, hunter, ... in 1927, he applied to patent his multiplate freezing machine. Large Scale Fast Freezing ...

Most of us recognize the name Clarence Birdseye but few know the story of his adventurous life and massively productive career as an inventor and businessman. Leave it to Mark Kurlansky to bring ...

Clarence Birdseye filed for U.S. Patent No. 1,773,079 in 1927, receiving it in 1930. His process would rapidly freeze fish and vegetables so that "the pristine qualities and flavors of the ...

Mr. Freeze Clarence Birdseye's flash of inspiration won him a place in your icebox. ... Finally Postum bought out Birdseye for $22 million--at the time the largest sum ever paid for a patent. ...

Clarence Birdseye's life as a taxidermist, fur trader, hunter, and fish lobbyist all led to his creation of the modern frozen food industry. His inventions made frozen food tastier and more widely ...